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Daily Jewish Wisdom

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom.


- Rav Kook
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

- Baal Shem Tov
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in the end be cruel when he should be merciful.

- Midrash Samuel
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
On Purim one should drink till he cannot tell the difference between "Cursed be Haman" and "Blessed be Mordecai."

- Raba. Talmud: Megilla, 7b
 

jewscout

Religious Zionist
Maize said:
On Purim one should drink till he cannot tell the difference between "Cursed be Haman" and "Blessed be Mordecai."

- Raba. Talmud: Megilla, 7b
yeaaaaaaaaa Purim!!
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
Revelation is the silent, imperceptible manifestation of God in history. It is the still, small voice: it is the inevitableness, the regularity of nature.

- Herbert Loewe, "Rabbinic Anthology," 1938
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
A person should be more concerned with spiritual than with material matters, but another person's material welfare is his own spiritual concern.

- Rabbi Israel Salanter
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
It was not in insolence...that I did...not bow before proud Haman...but that I might not set a man's glory above God's!

- Apocrypha: Additions to Esther
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

- Simone Weil, "The Need for Roots"
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

- Maimonides, "Eight Chapters"
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
Show respect for an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have learned that the fragments of the old tablets were kept alongside the new tablets in the Ark of the Covenant.

- Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 8b
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
To please all is an impossible aim, and to escape some criticism is an unattainable goal.

- M. Ibn Ezra, "Shirat Yisrael"
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
He who repeats what he has learned one hundred times cannot be compared to one who repeats it a hundred and one times.

- Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah 9b
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
If one is honest in his business dealings and people esteem him, it is accounted to him as though he had fulfilled the whole Torah.

- Mekhilta, Vayessa, Chapter 1
 

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
If a Jew breaks a leg, he thanks God he did not break both legs; if he breaks both, he thanks God he did not break his neck.

- Yiddish proverb
 
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